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Brie Season Paperback – September 10, 2014
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—Michael Hettich, author of Systems of Vanishing (University of Tampa Press, spring 2014)
It is rare to find a collection of poems which combine sensuality, wisdom and wit, but Karetnick’s new collection: Brie Season does just that. Though her work is laced with acerbic wit and gentle wisdom, the inherent sensuousness of food and drink is the lens through which much of this book is filtered. Her exquisitely crafted poems reach in and touch the reader on a deeply personal level, then expand out to include perceptive geopolitical commentary. There is no doubt that this work will delight gourmands, but there is more than enough in this feast of words to please every reader.
—Susannah W. Simpson, author of Geography of Love & Exile (Cervena Barva Press, fall 2014)
- Print length98 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 10, 2014
- Dimensions6 x 0.23 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100692277765
- ISBN-13978-0692277768
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- Publisher : White Violet Press (September 10, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 98 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0692277765
- ISBN-13 : 978-0692277768
- Item Weight : 12.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.23 x 9 inches
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About the author
Jen Karetnick is the author/co-author of 20 collections of poetry, cookbooks, guidebooks, and more. The winner of the 2020 Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, the 2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Award, the 2017 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest, the 2016 Romeo Lemay Poetry Prize, and the 2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among others, she has also been awarded first place in journalism competitions sponsored by such institutions as Association of Food Journalists, Gourmand Cookbook Awards, North American Travel Journalists, and Society of Professional Journalists. Her poetry, essays, articles, and interviews appear widely in outlets including TheAtlantic.com, Culture Cheese Magazine, ForbesTraveler.com, GoodHousekeeping.com, Guernica, Miami Herald, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, North American Review, NPR, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, Salamander, Southern Living, USA Today, Verse Daily, and Vinepair.com. She is co-founder/co-editor of the daily online literary journal, SWWIM Every Day (www.swwim.org). Jen received an MFA in poetry from University of California, Irvine, and an MFA in fiction from University of Miami. She works as a freelance lifestyle journalist specializing in food and wine, travel, parenting, education, literature and the arts, health and medicine, and more. She is also co-author of the garden-to-table newsletter Dishtillery with her sister, Betsy Karetnick. Find Jen on Twitter @Kavetchnik, Facebook @Kavetchnik and @JenKaretnick, and Instagram @JenKaretnick. Please see her online portfolio at kavetchnik.contently.com or her website at jkaretnick.com.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2016We find all kinds of things to write poems about, like food, and cheese. At least, we often write about food when we are really writing about something deeper.
Jen Karetnick is a poet and author who has written (and co-authored) books about food, like a recipe book for mangoes, entitled to no surprise, “Mango.” Food is an important part of our lives, for more than the obvious reasons of sustenance and survival. Food is part of culture, for good and for ill.
In “Brie Season: Poems,” Karetnick has assembled some 60 poems which are ostensibly about food, but go deeper into the culture that frames what we call food and the human emoptions that come into play. The poems are about tomatoes, mangoes, date palms, how to drink champagne alone, deviled eggs, bagels, hard-boiled eggs, oranges, cookies, mustard, asparagus, mushrooms, cocktails, cappuccino, and more. One poem is about cheese, or more precisely, it is a response to an observation G.K. Chesterton made about cheese.
A Note to GK Chesterton
If it’s true, as you say, that we have been
“mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese,”
perhaps it’s because few are the poets
who would choose as a muse
a bloomy rind triple crème
coated with penicillium candidum
when great white herons miss the bay
and, with breeze-fuzzed feathers,
land instead to amuse toddlers by stalking
reef geckos not quite camouflaged
among the grasses growing like lies
on the sand-held bricks of driveways
where basketball nets hang – the tattered
tails of kites – or wax about calf rennet
when older boys wheel like hawks
on baseball diamonds and our daughters
run, more long-legged every day,
under phone wires lined with a dozen
observant ibis, or care about cheddaring
and cave aging when none of these
things are true, and the children we never
bore are regrets, difficult to census
yet kept warm in the nests
of plume-hunted, colonial egrets.
That poem provides the flavor of “Brie Season” – it begins speaking about a food and then becomes something else entirely.
Karetnick received an MFA in Poetry from the University of California-Irvine and an MFA in fiction from the University of Miami. She is the author of three books of poetry, including the forthcoming American Sentencing, and four chapbooks: “Prayer of Confession,” “Landscaping for Wildlife,” “Bud Break at Mango House,” and “Necessary Salt.” She is a freelance writer, publishing in numerous food and general interest magazines, including two articles for The Atlantic: “Virtual Education: Genuine Benefits or Real-Time Demerits?” and “Behind the Scenes of Teenage Writing Competitions.” Additionally, she’s won numerous awards and honors for both her poetry and her writing on food.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2014Brie Season is jen Karetnick's best poetry yet. She makes ordinary moments in life seem surreal with an almost whimsical lyricism. Her passion for detail and food makes it a wonderful must-read for any poetry-lover.